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marched 10 miles from his camp opposite Haranpur to where he encountered
Alexander, can only be due to some misapprehension.

The incidental reference made by me to the small village of Sikandarpur as
situated at the apex of a triangular stretch of ground which remains on the left
bank of the river owing to a north-western bend of the present river bed, has
suggested to Professor Breloer that the name of this little place may have
unconsciously played a 'bestimmende Rolle' in my location of the battle-field.
In this respect he may rest assured that the many years spent by me in the
Panjāb, where the name Sikandar is so common in personal as well as local
nomenclature, would alone have sufficed to render me immune against being
influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by the chance occurrence of such a
modern name.

Section iv—THE PASS OF NANDANA AND ITS RUINS

General Cunningham already had called attention to a local tradition at Jalāl-
pur that the town in ancient times had extended in a west-north-west direction
for miles along the hill slopes. I first took occasion to examine the ruins sup-
porting this tradition, collectively known by the name of Girjhak, when pay-
ing a visit to the conspicuous Hindu shrine of Mangal Dēv (Fig. 9). This
occupies the top of a gently sloping shoulder of the hill chain which rises to the
height of 1,833 feet north-west of Jalālpur. A steep path, partly paved and
evidently old, leads up to the temple past sharply tilted conglomerate strata
eroded into fantastic shapes. Neither the extant temple nor the mosque close
by, both situated about 400 feet above the plain, look old; but the terraces
below them are covered with the debris of dwellings built with rough stones
and completely decayed. Here were picked up some painted and incised
potsherds (see Gir. 4, 5, Pl. I), decorated in a style closely recalling that
found by me on pottery from sites on the North-West Frontier and in
Northern Balūchistān, which can be tentatively dated between late prehistoric
and early historical times.¹ A well-polished surface is found both on red and
grey ware.

When I subsequently proceeded along the steep rocky slopes towards the
spur descending to the hamlet of Chitti, about a mile farther to the west, I found
remains of similarly built dwellings covering whatever tolerably level space was
afforded by terraces or tops of ridges. The position of these ruins reminded me
strongly of that occupied by the 'Kāfirs' houses', so common on the hill-sides of
the Peshawar and Swāt valleys and dating from the Buddhist period. But here